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Rinse immediately with rubbing alcohol, poison plant washes or dishwashing soap plus plenty of water. Be sure to scrub under your nails. Apply wet compresses, calamine lotion or hydrocortisone cream ...

Another problematic plant, very noticeable in spring, is the Bradford pear tree ( Pyrus calleryana). This year’s hard freeze ...

A survivalist expert and master naturalist shares some tips on the kinds of plants to avoid and how to identify them properly ...

Plants can bring beauty, shade, and biodiversity to your backyard, but not all plants are welcome. Some species are outright illegal to grow in parts of the United States due to their invasive nature, ...

SEATTLE — A powerful windstorm swept through the Puget Sound region Wednesday night, bringing down trees and power lines across the area — including a towering hemlock that crashed through a home in ...

Poison hemlock is a plant you don’t want to tangle with. It’s very invasive, and some people get rashes from touching it. But the biggest problem is that all parts of the plant are poisonous — even ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As an invasive insect spreads in Ohio, the state Department of Natural Resources is offering to help certain landowners pay for extermination treatments. Hemlock woolly ...

Top left: Young poison hemlock plants (Bruce Ackley, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org); Bottom left: Mature poison hemlock stems with characteristic purple splotches (Joseph M. DiTomaso, ...

For more than 20 years, conservationists have been fighting a tiny insect killing the region's hemlock trees. Efforts to protect the trees through insecticide and the deployment of natural predators ...